The health of our mind (mental health), is not separate from the health of any other part of our body or being. It’s also not separate from the health of our relationships, community, the land or the cultural systems we live in. Public mental health work in the UK seeks to assess and label individual […]
These are not times of peace. These are times when veils are being lifted on governance, power, inequality and colonisation. It’s a time when many extremely difficult truths are being told and a time for many of us, when business as usual makes even less sense than it did before. It might even have become
Maternal mental health matters more than we think. It’s one of the key social markers for how well we’re doing as a culture because it has an impact on everyone. Supporting mothers has a ripple effect of support throughout families and communities because mothers are the emotional centre of family life. The unconditional care and
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This week marks the anniversary of the 1st lockdown announcement. What was happening in your life 3 years ago? I’d just come to the end of my first 40 days of home rest & was ready to venture out into the world as ‘mama’. As we know that didn’t happen … so back in I
The seed I want to tend and grow this spring is a healthier menstrual culture for us all. Through winter rest, I clarified my vision for a world where working menstruators are rewarded for their super productivity through their fertile phase by getting paid time off while they bleed. I want to work big on
Cyclical wisdom; our antidote to burning out in patriarchy Read More »
There is a particular birth story medicine available to us around our child’s birthday ~ a medicine we can retrieve for ourselves, for them and for our parent-child relationship. We’re about to celebrate our daughter’s birthday and with it 3 years of breastfeeding also! As I approach the sacred window of 3 years since giving
Birth story work is powerful around our child’s birthday Read More »
Nothing completely prepares us for what we feel and experience during birth and beyond. Whatever our experience, one thing is true for us all: we enter the birth space one version of ourselves and emerge changed. A child has been born but the birth of a mother lingers on for some ambiguous length of time.
Owning our birth story for empowered mothering Read More »
Dear mothers, My offering this as an invitation, a wish and a longing that we actively cultivate a fierce connection to our heart and soul throughout our mothering journey. I offer us this ritual as a moment we can take for ourselves to intentionally, lovingly tend to our hearts and tune into what will truly feed
A tea ritual for mothers Read More »
I’ve been quiet this last while; doing the bare minimum between surrendering into and emerging steadily from a covid underworld. I’ve been present with the rich, in-between space of illness, recovery and all it brings; sometimes peaceful, sometimes with pain, sometimes unable to meet the demands of motherhood, sometimes exhausted and sometimes deeply nourished by
Notes on the passage of illness; Hawthorn through covid convalescence Read More »
Today and all days may the loving care you bring be seen. Today and all days may you be mothered and supported through your mothering. Today and all days may your mothering flow from a place of wellness and resource. Today and all days may the power of your mothering be felt by those who need it ~
To all this Mothering Sunday Read More »